Asean haze agreement must show its teeth

IT may have taken much longer than some would have liked, but Indonesia's Parliament finally voted on Tuesday to ratify the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, 12 long years after Indonesia first signed the pact together with the other nine Asean member states, including Singapore.

The breakthrough could not have come at a better time, especially with the recent escalation of hot spots in Sumatra and Kalimantan. The haze also made its unwelcome r…